ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES
A NIGHTWATCHMAN'S FALL (Per United Press Association) AUCKLAND, Sept. 15. After falling down a flight of stairs at Hellaby's meat works, Westfleld, at 4 o'clock this morning, the nightwatchman, Birkett Germann, aged 48, of Onehunga, despite a fractured right thigh, crawled to the next floor and broke a window with his torch. An engineer who was on duty heard the noise and summoned the St. John Ambulance and Dr Griffen, of Otahuhu. The injured man was taken to hospital, and an X-ray examination is being made. FOUND DEAD IN HUT (Per United Press-Association) GREYMOUTH, Sept. 15. Heribert Nyberg, aged 65. was found dead in his hut at Atarau this morning. He was working yesterday, but left early, feeling unwell. His mate called this morning and found him dead. He was a native of Sweden, where his wife and three children reside. Nyberg came to the Dominion in 1903. A BABY SUFFOCATED (Per United Press Association) HOKITIKA, Sept. 15. The 16-months-old daughter of Mr and Mrs Robert Gugich died yesterday afternoon, following a fall and suffocating as a result of swallowin" some foreign substance. FATAL BULLET WOUND (Per United Press Association) CHRISTCHURCH, Sept. 15. Harry E. Ayers, a well-known Lyttelton resident, was found shot at his shop this morning, with a pea rifle beside his body.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 22987, 16 September 1936, Page 8
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